Re:Live in Cook County Jail
by fipar on Monday December 25, 2023 @09:20PM
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I should have watched the video you linked before answering, but I still think the fact that BB King performed as part of a fictional band for the movie means his (by then long) experience playing in jails could have inspired the scene you linked to.
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It’s probably a good bet that the scene was inspired by the album/concert.
But just to be pedantic, all the prison scenes were from the Joliet State Prison, which is definitely not in Cook County. The Joliet prison has its own history - it was built in the 1850s by prison labor, who quarried limestone from the site, and was open up until the early 2000s! There are tours from time to time, and a supposedly very good haunted house around Halloween.